METRA Range Rules

1.Some adjoining fields may be entirely off-limits. You may be arrested or fined for trespassing. Contact a METRA officer or BoD member if a rocket lands outside our perimeter. Typically, rockets are returned to the club by the landowner within a week.

2.The RSO and/or Prefect have final say on ALL flights. This is a Safety Code requirement.

3.Your help is needed, so PLEASE sign up for range duty.

4.Alcoholic beverages may not be consumed at the field before or during a METRA launch.

5.You must remove your own refuse from the field. We don’t regularly provide trash containers or garbage bags. This is a zero tolerance field rule. If you don’t like garbage thrown on your lawn, don’t leave it on someone else’s.

6. Pay attention to the LCO and STAND when a HEADS UP flight is announced!

7.Spectators are to remain behind the indicated areas ONLY and NOT beyond the flight line.

8.Farm equipment and machinery are off-limits.

9.Children are not allowed to play near the river or in irrigation ditches. These areas are extremely dangerous.

10.Total impulse of all motors in a rocket allowed at range is 10,240N-s, equivalent to a full “M” motor, as long as the rocket stays below 4500′ AGL as stipulated by our FAA wavier.

11. All METRA launches operate under Tripoli research launch rules. Certified and uncertified commercial motors and experimental motors based on AP, AN, Sugar, or Hybrid technologies are all allowed.

12.No igniters are to be installed in high power rocket motors (H impulse and above) prior to passing an RSO inspection. Igniters in such motors shall be installed ONLY at the pad.